Background
ROBINSON, Joan was born in 1903 in Camberley, Surrey, England.
(Joan Robinson shows how the economic mechanisms that prod...)
Joan Robinson shows how the economic mechanisms that produce wealth in the midst of growing misery can be understood. For this purpose she uses the classical theory of accumulation and the modern theory of international trade and finance. Her simple but penetrating analysis illuminates the problems of poverty, accumulation, industrialization and trade, while exposing misleading conceptions of the Third World. Throughout the book, general principles are demonstrated with particular examples, making those principles both clearer and more relevant. The book's conclusion is that the economic problems of the Third World remain rooted in deep-seated political conflicts of national and international interests.
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ROBINSON, Joan was born in 1903 in Camberley, Surrey, England.
Master of Arts University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1927. Honorary Doctor of Laws Universities London, Liège.
Her early work on imperfect competition, which she later repudiated, taught an entire generation of economists the geometries of price theory that now figures so heavily in elementary textbooks. A leading propagator of Keynesian economics before the war, she moved after the war towards a dynamisation of Keynesian economics, gradually converting it into a theory of growth along what is nowadays called ‘post-Keynesian’ lines. Becoming increasingly scornful of orthodox economics, she led the battle against Samuelson and Solow in the 1960s and 1970s, denying in particular the neoclassical theory of distribution based on the principle of marginal productivity.
Lector, Reader, Professor
Economics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1932-1949, 1949-1965, 1965-1971.
(Joan Robinson shows how the economic mechanisms that prod...)
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Monetary economics